Together... making health and well-being a reality!
                        LINEHAN SKILLS | DIALECTICAL BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (DBT)
       Learn the Skills. Change Your Life.
       Learn how to: 
         • Control Your Mind (Instead of letting it control you)
         • Manage Relationships (Instead of fighting/arguing all the time)
         • Regulate Emotions (Instead of letting your emotions control you)                     LEBANON
         • Tolerate Distress (Instead of fighting it or trying to get rid of it)                1600 West Main Street, Lebanon, IN
       Our DBT program requires attendance at weekly group therapy sessions.  
       Adult and adolescent programs are available. 
       Control Your Mind:
       Mindfulness Skills
         • Learn to identify reasonable mind, emotion mind, and wise mind                       NOBLESVILLE OUTPATIENT
         • Learn to balance reasonable mind and emotion mind to achieve wise mind               17840 Cumberland Road, Noblesville, IN
       A person is in “reasonable mind” when using the intellect, thinking rationally 
       and logically, is attending to the facts, is able to plan and stay focused, and “cool” 
       in approaching problems. A person is in “emotion mind” when thinking and 
       behavior are controlled by the current emotional state. In “emotion mind” 
       reasonable, logical thinking is difficult, facts are amplified or distorted, and 
       behavior expresses the emotions. “Wise mind” is the integration of “emotion              CARMEL OUTPATIENT
       mind” and “reasonable mind.” “Wise mind” adds intuitive knowing to emotional             697 Pro-Med Lane, Carmel, IN
       experiencing and logical thinking.
                           Reasonable        Wise       Emotional                               DEHAVEN BUILDING
                               Mind          Mind          Mind                                 2020 Brown Street, Anderson, IN
       Manage Relationships:                                                                    ELWOOD
       Interpersonal Skills                                                                     10731 State Road 13, Elwood, IN
         • Attend to Your Relationships
         • Learn how to not let hurts and problems build up
         • Use relationship skills to head off problems
       Learn how to end hopeless relationships and resolve conflicts before they get 
       overwhelming.                                                                            INDIANAPOLIS
       Balance Priorities and Demands Distract                                                  2506 Willowbrook Parkway, Indianapolis, IN 
         • If overwhelmed, learn to reduce or put off low-priority demands                      Appointments ...765-608-5598 or
         • Learn to ask others for help and how to say no when necessary
         • Learn how creating structure can bring order to your life                            ...........................877-574-1254
                                                                                                24/7 Crisis .........1-800-560-4038
                                                                                                Website .............www.AspireIndiana.org
                                                      Together... making health and well-being a reality!
                          Linehan Skills | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, continued...
       Balance the Want’s and Should’s
         • Learn how to balance what you are doing because you “want” to do it and  
          how much you do because it has to be done or you “should” do it
       Build Mastery and Self-Respect
         • Learn how to interact in ways that make you feel competent and effective,  
          not helpless and overly dependent 
         • Stand up for yourself, your beliefs and opinions
         • Learn to follow you own “wise mind”
       Control Your Emotions:
         • Emotion Regulation Skills
         • Understand Emotions                                                                Wouldn’t it be reassuring to 
       Learn how to identify, observe and describe emotions and what emotions do for          know that your health providers 
       you.                                                                                   communicate with each other 
       Reduce Emotional Vulnerability                                                         so they can provide a high  
         • Learn how to decrease negative emotions and increase positive emotions             degree of healthcare? Mental 
       Decrease Emotional Suffering                                                           health impacts our physical 
         • Learn how to let go of painful emotions through mindfulness
         • Change painful emotions through opposite action                                    health and vice versa, and  
       Handle Distress                                                                        because health is integrated, 
         • Distress Tolerance Skills                                                          your provider should be too. 
         • Tolerate and Survive a Crisis
       Learn how to use the strategies of distracting, self-soothing, improving the 
       moment, and focusing on pros and cons to survive a crisis.
       Accept the Moment
       Learn how radical acceptance and willingness to do just what is needed in a  
       situation (according to “wise mind”) can help you tolerate a difficult and dis-
       tressful situation.
                                                                                                                                  Revised July 2019